Divine Plan? But I'm a Pokémon trainer.

Chapter 205: Shrine of Plenty
The inscription on the back of the water drop slab is:

[Those who master the slate can transform into various forms to exercise their power. ]

It sounds powerful, but this "者" refers to the alpaca clone.

Unless used through some special methods, for ordinary people and elves, the slate is just a prop that increases the power of a single attribute move.

The battle with Trainer Minami went smoothly, and the newly evolved Blazing Roaring Tiger and the ordinary form of Dolphin Man ended the battle cleanly and neatly.

At this point, only the last Dragon Slab remains of the five slabs that make up the Gem of Life.

Just as Link was about to visit East George's villa, he heard at the Pokémon Center that the slate would be given as a prize for the winner of the East George Fighting Tournament to be held in a certain town next weekend.

He calculated the time and found that as long as Lugia or Dragonite came along, he would still have time to get back, so he simply signed up for the fighting tournament...but then he discovered that he had to have at least 2 Unova badges.

“Let me see the map… A certain town is located on Route 7 in the Unova region, adjacent to Fukiyose City and Snow Flower City.

"We can head southwest to visit the Shrine of Plenty, spend the night in the White Forest, then head south to Shippo City to visit the museum and donate artifacts, then cross the Unova region to Snow Flower City to stay temporarily. This way, we can get the badges of Shippo and Snow Flower gyms and participate in the fighting tournament."

"Fu~"

It seems very troublesome, can't you just take it away?

Link thought for a moment. It actually made sense, but since there was plenty of time and other ways to get it, there was no need to choose the last resort, right?
After confirming the itinerary, he released Dragonite directly.

The latter, who thought he was going to fight, felt unhappy when he learned that it was just a temporary means of transportation. However, he still flew southwest with the man and the fox. It took less than half an hour to cross the mountains and reach a small shrine deep in the mountains.

In the past, people from foreign countries gathered here and formed a prosperous village, but later the land yield decreased, faith was lost, and villagers went out to work. In the end, only a few widows, the elderly and the young were still farming here.

During his descent from the air, Link noticed that the land here was very bad and the shrine dedicated to the gods brought no abundance at all.

After landing, Firefox gave Dragonair a bad review.

"Fu."

Sitting is not as comfortable as sitting with Togekiss and Lugia. When flying with people, the "Mystic Guardian" should be turned on to prevent air currents from attacking passengers.

Dragonite, look away. It's good enough that I let you ride it, but you ask for so much?

Sensing the presence of Dragonite in the sky, three left-behind children from the small village ran over excitedly.

"It's Dragonite!"

"What a fat dragon!"

"It's so cute!"

Dragonite threatened in annoyance, scaring away the shorts boy Kota and the twin girls Nozomi and Yoshiho.

"Ahhh!"

Link took it back into the ball and walked into the shrine with the Fire Fox.

An old man who called himself Genzo thought that some villagers had returned home and went out to greet them, but he found out that they were actually tourists from afar.

"What a rare visitor! Ever since the resurrection grass in the village withered, no outsiders have come to visit for a long time."

Once this fertile land was full of resurrection grass, which could be used as the highest-grade medicinal material. But ever since the land cloud stopped visiting, this plant, which is extremely difficult to grow in a normal environment, has withered and will never grow again.

The barren land cannot support outstanding grass-attribute elves, and even the wind fairies and the rotten mushrooms in the village have gradually lost their vitality...

"Are you people who migrated here from Sinnoh or Johto?" Link asked curiously.

"Our ancestors came from Johto." The old man nodded. Their names were indeed very conspicuous in the Unova region. On the contrary, Link, who called himself from Duskwater Town in Hoenn, had a name that was more in the Unova style.

The Unova region is a hodgepodge.

Now that he was there, Link didn't rush to mention the matter of the mirror and went straight to visit the Shrine of Plenty.

As a result, he discovered that there was a hand-mirror-like revealing mirror enshrined in the ancestral hall.

It seems that the ancient ruins' apparition mirror has nothing to do with this Temple of Plenty.

In addition, he also found two stones emitting abnormal energy.

"That's the keystone used to drive away tornadoes and lightning clouds."

Genzo mentioned something that happened about thirty years ago: "The quality of our Resurrection Grass is the best in the world, but tornadoes and lightning clouds always come to cause trouble and destroy farmland. Later, the village used the power of the bronze bell and Nine-Tails to create a keystone to disperse the other two weather Pokémon that only know how to play pranks."

The Shrine of Fertility only worships the god of farmland.

Hearing this, Fire Fox vaguely sensed that something was wrong.

It remembered that the book that the trainer had read before to develop the ranch mentioned lightning and nitrogen fertilizer...

"Fu?"

Link translated: "Have you never considered that the keystone might be the reason why the land clouds no longer visit us?"

"Of course we have considered it. We tried it when we first started to reduce production, but all we got were tornadoes or lightning clouds, which wreaked havoc and then left. Nothing has changed."

At this point, the old man couldn't help but sigh: "Perhaps in a few years, the land will deteriorate to the point where we will have to move the entire village to the Black Market in the southwest to settle down."

Fire Fox tilted its head in confusion. Didn’t the trainer mention the White Forest before?

Link was thoughtful. After all, Land Cloud was a favorite to compete with Blazing Roaring Tiger for the position of the strongest insect-type Pokémon. He had a deeper impression of it and remembered some of the contents in the illustrated book.

[Land Cloud, a Pokémon of abundance. It appears when the incarnations of whirlwind and lightning are fighting each other and calms them down. After the storm and thunder, the earth will surely have a good harvest. When it soars into the sky as a spirit beast, it will bring a good harvest to the earth, and is therefore revered by everyone. It only takes a moment to cut through the green earth. ]

After all, land clouds are elves that absorb wind and thunder and transform them into energy to provide nutrition to the land.

Without wind and thunder, neither wind nor thunder can summon it.

Having already guessed why the Shrine of Plenty had fallen into decline, he informed this to old man Genzo, who was immediately overjoyed and decided to try to remove the power of both keystones at the same time.

But the only problem is...

"Oh, this is troublesome. Thirty years have passed and there is no shrine maiden anymore. How can we hold the ritual of praying for rain and summoning the clouds from the land?"

"Wouldn't it be enough to ask the bronze bell to pray for rain?"

The old man shook his head repeatedly and said seriously, "No! The shrine maidens must perform the dance to the gods. This is a sacred and ancient tradition in our Johto region! But it doesn't matter. I will ask my granddaughter who works in the black market to come back and try."

But this is Unova, Link complained in his heart.

"Anyway, a shrine maiden is enough, right?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Link picked up the fire fox that was lying on his shoulder.

"Fu?"

(End of this chapter)